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I actually think he did sell them, but not for the reason he stated. He forgave his campaign primary loan of $50 million back in June - the same month that he sold his stocks. Most likely he initially used a line of credit with one his banks to make that loan. Trump was probably planning on the public not noticing when he paid himself back from campaign donations. When he figured out that he wasn't going to be able to cheat his supporters so openly, he realized that the only way that he could pay off the banks was to liquidate his stocks.

He didn't make the disclosure to the FEC about the loans till July, but his campaign had been saying since June that he had forgiven them.

The US is most definitely not an unregulated insurance market. Every single state has a insurance commissioner and there are also federal regulations. The US territories and D.C. also have insurance commissioners. See here for a list of them including contact information.

You can say it is a poorly regulated market or subject to regulatory capture, but it is not unregulated.

The white settlers who moved to Texas, at Mexico's invitation, were often slave owners. I don't really remember the entire history of it too well since my last Texas history class was two decades ago, but the wikipedia gives a quick overview of it. But essentially yes. Mexico encouraged Stephen F. Austin to encourage Americans to move to Texas as settlers, and he mostly recruited from the slave holding Southeastern US.

But again, slavery was just part of the reason for the rebellion. The more proximate cause was that Santa Ana was setting himself as the "Napoleon of the West." He wanted to be Emperor of Mexico. Multiple states rebelled. All of them except Texas were eventually subdued by Santa Ana.

Edit: The Texas education plan for K-12 has multiple years of Texas history as part of the curriculum. I don't know if other states do the same, but we took it in junior high (7th) and then again in high school (10th grade I think). Plus you get it before then too. I went to a Catholic school through 6th grade, so I am not sure exactly what the public school curriculum was for those years. Also, Texas wasn't quite as insane with the education idiocy back when I grew up.

Texas actually spends an inordinate amount of time on the 1800s covering the war of independence against President/General Santa Ana. They just didn't dwell too heavily on the slavery aspect as one of the reasons for the rebellion against Mexico.

Slavery was one of the reasons, but President Santa Ana was also trying to set himself up as a dictator. Texas was one of many Mexican states that rebelled against him. It is just the only one that managed to stay independent.

It wouldn't have mattered. Meet the "Honorable" Scott DesJarlais (R-TN).

Two weeks after DesJarlais won the 2012 election, the Chattanooga Times Free Press obtained a full transcript of DesJarlais's 2001 divorce proceedings.[26] The transcript revealed that DesJarlais had admitted under oath to at least six sexual relationships with people he came in contact with while he was chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tennessee. Among them were three co-workers, two patients and a drug representative.[27] The transcript also revealed that he and his former wife had had two abortions.[28][29][27] The transcript also revealed that DesJarlais had admitted under oath that he and his former wife had recorded the phone conversation with the mistress.[23] "One of the biggest mistakes I made was I commented to the press before I had the opportunity to go back and read a transcript that was 13, 14 years old," he said in an interview with the Knoxville News Sentinel. "It was never my intention to mislead anyone, and had I read this, I don't think the inaccuracies that occurred would have taken place."[23]

[Three weeks after he won the election, DesJarlais announced on a conservative talk radio show that "God has 'forgiven me' and asked 'fellow Christians' and constituents 'to consider doing the same'.]("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_DesJarlais)

Hey, he just wanted some pizza. I guess he didn't know that in the USA one of our specialties is high-speed pizza delivery. The others of course being music, movies, and microcode. Literally, he left Blair House (official residency for visiting dignitaries) in his underwear because he was drunk as hell and wanted some pizza.

It doesn't have to be stable, and you are right that it is not (half life in the hundreds of milliseconds). 6 He decays through beta decay into either 6 Li or through beta and alpha decay into 4 He and 2 H (deuterium).

It is a reference to Trump as the Emperor Caligula, who according to some ancient writings tried to appoint his horse as a Senator and Consul of Rome. According to those writings, he actually did appoint him as a priest (the Roman religion was directly tied into the state).

The Petraeus plea deal has a section that details the facts that the government and Petraeus agree on. In it, it is stated that no classified information was in her book. And it wasn't minor classified information either. It was eight notebooks full of Petraeus's daily notes (classified and not) from his time in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Conspiracy theorists, essentially. It starts on the fringe right wing internet sites and then filters up to the more respectable ones until the sources of TRUTH on the right repeat it. Once Limbaugh, Drudge, FOX News and their ilk repeat it, then it is now accepted truth.

It all started with an anonymous Indian official's guess as to how much his visit cost. His guess was printed in an Indian paper and then it went through the right wing noise machine and became TRUTH.

There is actually an amendment left over from the initial batch that make up the Bill of Rights that sets the size of a House district. There were actually 12 amendments in the first set sent to states for ratification. Ten passed, but two did not. One of those was later ratified in the 1992 (addressing Congress changing its salary). The other one:

A snipe hunt or fool's errand is a type of practical joke that involves experienced people making fun of credulous newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task.[1] The snipe hunt may be assigned to a target as part of a process of hazing, but the word "sniper" is derived from a marksman with enough skill to shoot one

Alex Jones was a diehard proponent of the collapse of civilization following the Year 2000 bug occurring. He sold survivalist kits and everything. His following decreased somewhat when nothing happened, then 9/11 happened and he just ignored everything he had said before and went with his new conspiracies.

He will do the same thing again. Consistency doesn't matter. Only highlighting the newest conspiracy does. And Trump's cabinet and family will provide plenty of opportunities. Or he could just blame Congress. Or Democrats. Just because they are out of power doesn't mean (in a conspiracy sense) that they still don't control everything.

Rove at the time was talking about a "permanent Republican majority." Then Bush's privatization of Social Security failed, Iraq continued to collapse, and eventually the housing collapse led to the Great Recession. Eventually reality reasserted itself, but it took a near collapse of the global economy and thousands of dead Americans and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.

The agency's systems aren't exactly at the cutting edge of technology. Thanks to persistent budget cuts, the agency's efforts to modernize its technologies have been held up, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told a Senate panel in February 2015.

"We're running applications we were running when John F. Kennedy was president," Koskinen told lawmakers.

He also said some IRS systems still use the COBOL programming language, which Computer World once described as "a programming dinosaur that was last hot in the 1980s."